Because, even though we assume water vapor is common, we don't have much evidence of that being true. And often our assumptions are incorrect. So having credible evidence is much more comforting than declaring it a 'safe bet'.
Further, the reason why we are so wound up about water is that we know that life exists in such an environment. We can propose other solvents but all that is unknown.
And further, TFA is establishing a methodology to look for water in other exoplanets so we can hopefully find out how common (or uncommon it is).
Good thing we have Slashdot to save us from getting excited about hi tech stuff. I mean, just off the top of his head, the OP has taken apart thousands of man hours of work and cut to the chase. Fine work.
It just seems like it's Just One More Federal Agency jumping on the bandwagon. In a sense, this is good news. As has been pointed out, the information is already out there - if the NSA and other mysterious, dark agencies in the US Federal Government actually had their act together, they would already know this. The fact that they're asking suggests that nobody can connect the dots.
Or perhaps, nobody wants to own up that they can do this, or they're having dominance games over whatever department or agency is asking for the info (TFA is a biti vague as to who's clever idea this was).
You all really shouldn't do that. What is going to happen when some naive person, say a Congressman or Senator, wanders onto Slashdot and see's posts like that marked "Informative"? They're going to think we're a bunch of tossers. They won't listen to our carefully worded comments and summaries.
Can we all work in your fantasy world? At least in the biomed fields, even 'reputable' scientists are having hard times getting grants and tenure. Not saying that this guy is reputable at all but it's a paramecium-eat-ameoba world out there.
It's obviously the beginning of a research project. Take a drug - see what it does to 'normal' people with the testing platform you are using (in this case functional MRI), then try it on different clinical diagnoses. Remember, most medical diagnoses and especially psychiatric ones are not binary events - they lie on a continuum. We really don't know how to diagnose most patients with complex psychiatric problems. We typically give them several overlapping diagnoses that really don't explain the patient's problems and medicate them accordingly. I've always thought there should be a 'just plain nuts' category. It would be more objective and honest.
Treatment of psychiatric issues with medications is still in it's infancy and it's still akin to using hand grenades instead of scalpels. Studies like this one are trying to pin point areas of regulation and dysregulation with the eventual idea of finding more specific treatments.
Of course, that means more specific ways of controlling someone's mind. Which has its upsides. And it downsides.
Although people are generally told that SSRIs take several weeks to work, many patients report that some effects are noticeable in the first few days. These are usually improvement in anxiety symptoms (depression and anxiety commonly coexist).
So this doesn't surprise me all that much. What will be interesting is to follow 'normal' and depressed people over time with and without treatment. However, given how annoying MRIs can be (confining and noisy and slow) I wonder if there will some sort of bias created with some people opting out of frequent testing.
Our rates went down from $1500/mo to $1300/mo for a family of 5 with medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage. We're in Maryland and ages are 34, 34, 4, 3, and 3. We kept all of our doctors.
Oops. Missed one.
That's OK, we'll check on you next year as you re enroll. We've had some problems with our computer systems keeping up but we're working on it....
That is why the prudent iOS User with hardware > 1 Generation "back", waits a few days/weeks to see if they should Upgrade. After all, all it takes to not Upgrade, is to, well, not Upgrade. You iOS Device will continue to work exactly as always.
The truly prudent iOS (or for that matter OS X) user waits until the.2 release to upgrade. That gives all of the beta testers, err, early users, time to debug the stuff that Apple, despite having a closed hardware platform, just never seems to manage very well. By the second point release, most of the mainstream bugs have been fixed as best they ever will.
Full of ennui and hate. Full of himself. Likely full of Cheetos. Where is that lust for life? That passion? That urge to break out of the narrow, tunnel-visioned view of life all to common these days.
I could even see circumstances in an Apollo-Thirteen kind of accident where engineers at NASA could come up with a fix that's safer and more reliable than duct-taping some plastic sheeting to a bulkhead because the tech to manufacture a few parts exists with those that need those parts.
As opposed to use socks and duct tape? Philistine. I weep for the world that was.
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Like this?
Because, even though we assume water vapor is common, we don't have much evidence of that being true. And often our assumptions are incorrect. So having credible evidence is much more comforting than declaring it a 'safe bet'.
Further, the reason why we are so wound up about water is that we know that life exists in such an environment. We can propose other solvents but all that is unknown.
And further, TFA is establishing a methodology to look for water in other exoplanets so we can hopefully find out how common (or uncommon it is).
Good thing we have Slashdot to save us from getting excited about hi tech stuff. I mean, just off the top of his head, the OP has taken apart thousands of man hours of work and cut to the chase. Fine work.
Less space than a Nomad, no wireless. Lame.
It just seems like it's Just One More Federal Agency jumping on the bandwagon. In a sense, this is good news. As has been pointed out, the information is already out there - if the NSA and other mysterious, dark agencies in the US Federal Government actually had their act together, they would already know this. The fact that they're asking suggests that nobody can connect the dots.
Or perhaps, nobody wants to own up that they can do this, or they're having dominance games over whatever department or agency is asking for the info (TFA is a biti vague as to who's clever idea this was).
It's only more paperwork....
This is insightful? Did I miss a funny?
You guys gotta stop that. It's confusing enough here as it is..
It may not be able to create a runaway reaction that can damage the reactor, but it must, by definition, create a chain reaction.
You all really shouldn't do that. What is going to happen when some naive person, say a Congressman or Senator, wanders onto Slashdot and see's posts like that marked "Informative"? They're going to think we're a bunch of tossers. They won't listen to our carefully worded comments and summaries.
Then where would the world be?
Funny is it's own reward.
How about 'Photoshopped pictures' because it never happened?
Really, the Internet needs a drain. Support 4Chan...
Or at the very least a /sarcasm tag....
If you really want some good high ground, park your weapon at a Lagrange point.
You can't do that - the TV transmitters are there!
Which might be why the CDC has latched onto this as a teaching aid.
I don't suppose it's considered usual and customary to pay your own lawyer in the country you live in?
Now that would be different. Kinda like having a doctor's hand cut off if he didn't cure the patient.
Can we all work in your fantasy world? At least in the biomed fields, even 'reputable' scientists are having hard times getting grants and tenure. Not saying that this guy is reputable at all but it's a paramecium-eat-ameoba world out there.
'Nature red in tooth' and claw and all of that
This guys a fraud and about to finish some in-depth research into the Streisand effect.
Repeatability is the hallmark of good science ....
You photoshop it, of course.
Ah, what would you say had you not seen this? "Hey, never heard of that, sounds legit, let me get back to you."
I submit that you would have lost your lunch through your nose had you been forewarned or not.
Look at where it's coming from - Dice.com
The ultimate in click bait. As for making the rounds on the Internet - yep, it's at 4chan.
Some viral meme, that.
It's obviously the beginning of a research project. Take a drug - see what it does to 'normal' people with the testing platform you are using (in this case functional MRI), then try it on different clinical diagnoses. Remember, most medical diagnoses and especially psychiatric ones are not binary events - they lie on a continuum. We really don't know how to diagnose most patients with complex psychiatric problems. We typically give them several overlapping diagnoses that really don't explain the patient's problems and medicate them accordingly. I've always thought there should be a 'just plain nuts' category. It would be more objective and honest.
Treatment of psychiatric issues with medications is still in it's infancy and it's still akin to using hand grenades instead of scalpels. Studies like this one are trying to pin point areas of regulation and dysregulation with the eventual idea of finding more specific treatments.
Of course, that means more specific ways of controlling someone's mind. Which has its upsides. And it downsides.
Although people are generally told that SSRIs take several weeks to work, many patients report that some effects are noticeable in the first few days. These are usually improvement in anxiety symptoms (depression and anxiety commonly coexist).
So this doesn't surprise me all that much. What will be interesting is to follow 'normal' and depressed people over time with and without treatment. However, given how annoying MRIs can be (confining and noisy and slow) I wonder if there will some sort of bias created with some people opting out of frequent testing.
But Global Warming is Obama's fault!
Our rates went down from $1500/mo to $1300/mo for a family of 5 with medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage. We're in Maryland and ages are 34, 34, 4, 3, and 3. We kept all of our doctors.
Oops. Missed one.
That's OK, we'll check on you next year as you re enroll. We've had some problems with our computer systems keeping up but we're working on it....
That is why the prudent iOS User with hardware > 1 Generation "back", waits a few days/weeks to see if they should Upgrade. After all, all it takes to not Upgrade, is to, well, not Upgrade. You iOS Device will continue to work exactly as always.
The truly prudent iOS (or for that matter OS X) user waits until the .2 release to upgrade. That gives all of the beta testers, err, early users, time to debug the stuff that Apple, despite having a closed hardware platform, just never seems to manage very well. By the second point release, most of the mainstream bugs have been fixed as best they ever will.
Sigh. Another humorless AC.
Full of ennui and hate. Full of himself. Likely full of Cheetos. Where is that lust for life? That passion? That urge to break out of the narrow, tunnel-visioned view of life all to common these days.
Must be Obama's fault.
"Horses can make other horses. That's a trick that tractor's haven't figured out yet."
-- Heinlein
I could even see circumstances in an Apollo-Thirteen kind of accident where engineers at NASA could come up with a fix that's safer and more reliable than duct-taping some plastic sheeting to a bulkhead because the tech to manufacture a few parts exists with those that need those parts.
As opposed to use socks and duct tape? Philistine. I weep for the world that was.